Pancit palabok is a delish dish: No way to top dad's version

12:15 PM,
May 7, 2014

Written by

Jojo Santo Tomas
For Pacific Daily News

After spending most of last week bashing the Philippines' beloved pasta dish, sweet spaghetti, I thought it appropriate to shower my love on a different Filipino noodle dish -- pancit palabok, which, translated into English, means "yummylicious orange noodles in gravy."

Of all the dishes that I love, palabok is one of the few for which I've tasted no similar counterpart in other cuisines. It's fairly inexpensive, though that's probably a result of using inexpensive ingredients and not because it's the easiest thing to make from scratch.